Matlab App Designer ginput bug

I am developing an App in Matlab App Designer, and I need to use ginput to detect if the user pressed an arrow button (left, right, up or down).

[gx, gy, button] = ginput(1) ;

switch button
    case 28 %left arrow
        %do some stuff
    case 29 %right arrow
        %do some stuff
    case 30 %up arrow
        %do some stuff
    case 31 %down arrow
        %do some stuff
   %case ... (more stuff)
end

When I use this code in Matlab Command Window, it works as desired, but in Matlab App Designer, all arrow buttons are detected as ASCII character 65506 (¬), so there is no way to know what arrow button the user has pressed.

Can anyone help me? Am I doing something wrong?

[Christopher]

I am also experiencing this bug. I experimentally determined that 28, 29, 30, 31 are left/right/up/down using ginput outside of app designer. It seems like MATLAB just uses some seldom-used separator characters' ascii values to handle the arrow keys, as there are not arrow keys in ascii.

For now, I'm getting the functionality I want from WASD keys, but I wish that the arrow keys worked.

Answer 1

[Kumar Pallav]

From the code you shared, the ASCII value of left arrow is mentioned as 28, however, it is actually 37. Similarly, up arrow ASCII value is 38. Could you please change the values and verify again.